stylet

An engraving tool, a stylus.

Noun

  1. An engraving tool, a stylus.
  2. A style of a plant's flower.
  3. A slender medical probe or device.

    Synonyms: style

  4. A poniard or stiletto.
  5. A stiff, slender organ of an animal.
    • Even octopuses without stylets almost certainly retain the molecular machinery necessary to build them. - 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 120:

    Synonyms: style

Origin

From French stylet (“stiletto”), from Middle French stilet (“stiletto”), from Old Italian stiletto. Doublet of stiletto. By surface analysis, style + -et.

Forms

stylets

Derived

styletiform styletted